Non-refillable bottle.



J. F. GOODRIDGE.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1, 1915.

Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

INVENTOR UNITED s'rAtrEs PATENT onnion.

JAMES IE. GOODRIDGE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 SAMUEL MAY, JIL, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

.NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

Application filed April 7, 1915. Serial No. 19,643.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEsF. GOODRIDGE,

a citizen of. the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following description, in. connection with the accompanying drawings,.1is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

The present invention relates to an improved device for preventing the unauthorized refilling of liquid containersytheflterm non-refillable bottle being generally used to describe a container so equipped.

The inventionhas for its object the simplification of known structureswhich have been. heretofore used to accomplish the same purpose, and the provision of means which will most efiectively accomplish the purposes in view, but which will nevertheless, be simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, and with which a bottle may be easily equipped to make it impossible to refill the same without destroying and removing the entire device.

In the accompanying drawings, one embodiment of this invention is shown, and

therein Figure 1 is a vertical section of the improved device, inverted and in pouring position; the line of the section in this and all similar sections being taken slightly forward of the central vertical plane; Fig. 2 is a vertical section corresponding to Fig. 1, showing the device upright with the valve closed; Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectionon the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, the valve member having been turned slightly for clearness in showing other parts;

The general objects to be attained'by the provision of such means as are herein described for use in connection with liquid containers of all kinds, are well known and need not be here set forth at length. It may well be'pointed out, however, that a device to be successful must be extremely simple in construction and be capable of manufactureat small cost without sacrificing its use thereof necessitates an outlay disproportionate to the value of the protection aiforded thereby. It is sought, in the present case, to providea non-refillable bottle which will combine the effectiveness of the more complicated and expensive structures with simplicity of construction and inexpensiveness of manufacture; in short, to make a distinctly practical device-having a reasonable protective value.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, a bottle neck a is shown as provided with an interiorally projecting shoulder b. To this shoulder a washer c is fitted which forms a valve seat and separates the valve chamber from the interior of the bottle. The valve seat 0 may be, and preferably is cemented to the shoulder a, and has a centrally located passage therethrough which, in the present instancevhas a diameter approximately one-third the diameter of the valve seat, thus leaving a relatively large seating area for the valve. A valve d is loosely fitted within the valve chamber, which is formed entirely within the bottle neck, the valve having a limited movement therein toward and away from the valve seat. This valve is'provided with a conical surface cl to engage a corresponding surface c of the valve seat thus securing a reasonably tight closure because of the 'relatively large seating area. The valve is also provided with radial lugs e which extend 'trate any attempt to refill the bottle. With this in view, the valve is hollowed out on what appears as its under side in Fig. 1, the concave recess being indicated by f.

A cap 9 forming the outlet is fitted into the end of the bottle neck and cemented thereto. It is provided with a flange h which bears against the end of the wall of the bottle neck and correctly positions the cap 9 in relation to the other parts of the device. The cap thus forms the end wall of the valve chamber. Lugs z' are formed integrally with as cap and constitute "means for limiting the movement of the" mechanism.

upon the cap 9. I

Preferably the variousparts of the device In the present structure, the liquid flow-sing past -the valved is not relied upon as the sole means of operating this valve to" close the same and prevent the refilling of the bottle, but in addition thereto, there may be provided a weight to act-upon the valve to close it when'the bottle is held in any other than an approximately inverted at position-.., The means referredto-are herein:

shown as a ball j which is loosely'retained 'in its proper place within'the cavity f hof'the valve seat by the lugs 71 upon the, caplg.- It I will at once be apparent that when the'bottle is held in an approximately horizontal posi-. 1

tion, at least part of the Weight of the' .ball. willxbe' thrown against the valve dand stend liquid contents of the bottle 1 will, flowv through the aperture in the valve seat 0,v

past thevalve (Z, between the -lugs e,- thence between the'lugsi and so out'of the aperture. in, thecap g. Y The air will pass, in :through corresponding spaces abovetthe valve The cross-section in Fig. 3 shows the con.-

structionof the valve. with its positioning, lugs e, in its relation to the ballj andothe ball retaining means; Inthis Efigure, the valve has been rotated slightly to the right retaining lugs 71.

inorder to show theball herein described are madewof porcelain nor some 2 such non-corrosive substance 7 which 'willi be-unaffected by'the contentsof-the We; biifit'will, of hearse," be understood that any suitable material maybeusedg v .-I.-clai'm as my invention? In a non-refillable bottle, the combination of a fru'sto conical'valve seat located within the "bottle neck and-having a pouring opening, a conical headed valve to cooperate with the valve seat. to close said opening, means I uponuthevalve to space the same fromthe side walls of the bottle neclqa ball weight" at the discharge"sideroffsaidsvalve, a cap closure for :the bottle neck having an inner valve independently ofsaidball weight,

eachnsaid lug having? a sloping surfaceato defiectthe'. ball gravitating" down it, inla.

diagonal direction, the, valve being sup,-

ported independently ofand freezfrom said:

balzlnwhen the-bottle is in pouring Iposi-tio-n thuspermittingthe. ballto' move freelyati:

allntimes under: the action of the. flowing:v liq'uidbetween the valve and thesaid. lugs,

and permitting the I ball in i its independent movement relative to said'valvetoqstrike 1 the latter-with impact, when .the bottle'is.

held upright, to force :itinto engagement;- o with its seat .and tendto :hold it thereon until it has p'assedwell beyond the horizon-.

tahposition while being inverted, thereby April, 1915.

Witnesses: v MANVEI'J WHITTEMORE,

ELEANOR GORDON.

' -JA s RGOODRID nameto this specification, in the presenceofL-7 twosubscribing witnesses, this third dayo'f Copies of this patent may be obtained fo'r five cents each,iby;addres sin g thelfcommissioner ofI'atents, 1 7 Washington, D. 0.? l V 

